A name of a person that will activate strong emotions in a person or group of people.
The person using the name may or may not know the
triggering effects of the name. However, some use the name to
manipulate people or large groups of people by activating patterns of emotions in specific ways.
The politician used name trigger
frequently to get the audience riled up. In the process, his name triggered the
opposition in the worst possible way.
Her friends quickly realize that her boyfriend's name was a name trigger that would activate a range of emotions that was not easy to deactivate.